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Marshall Curry is a three-time Academy Award nominated filmmaker. His documentary feature Street Fight followed Cory Booker’s first run for mayor of Newark, N.J., and was nominated for an Oscar® and an Emmy®. Last year, Curry was nominated for an Academy Award® for his short documentary A Night at The Garden, about a Nazi rally that filled Madison Square Garden in 1939. Curry’s other films include If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (nominated for an Academy Award and winner of Best Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival); Racing Dreams (winner of Best Documentary at Tribeca); and Point and Shoot (winner of Best Documentary at Tribeca). Curry was also Executive Producer and an additional editor of Mistaken For Strangers, a comedy rock-doc about indie band The National (opening night movie at Tribeca). Most recently, he wrote and directed the short fiction film THE NEIGHBORS' WINDOW, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has since gone on to win over 20 festival awards. Curry’s writing has twice been nominated for  Writers Guild of America awards. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College where he studied Comparative Religion and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Duke, Columbia, NYU, and other colleges.